Replace every
with a space

Question

I'm using Google maps to generate different locations off of a variable I'm passing in. However, I get an error from the API saying it cannot find the address and I think I know why. It's because I have a   tag for the variable that is being outputted.

So for example when I alert the variable that's being passed through, it looks like this:

Deep Forest Suite 233 100 Top Lane Los Angeles, CA

But I want the outputted variable to look like this.

Deep Forest Suite 233 100 Top Lane Los Angeles, CA

In short, I just want to replace all instances of   with a empty space. I have all my different location variables laid out like this.

Here is what I tried:

var content = ("cookie.current.addressLabel"); // this outputs the current location address which is Deep Forest<br/>Suite 233<br/>100 Top Lane<br/>Los Angeles, CA 
         var text = $(content).text();
        //showGoogleMap(content);
        var regPat = /<br\s*[\/]?>/gi;

Possible duplicate of [How to replace all occurrences of a string in JavaScript?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144783/how-to-replace-all-occurrences-of-a-string-in-javascript) — André Dion, May 08 '17 at 18:34
`text()` is going to strip out the HTML, if you want the `
` tags in there so you can replace them you need to use `.html()` — Rob M., May 08 '17 at 18:34
@AndréDion Although this may be a duplicate the marked duplicate is not right. This is an html() and regex question. Regular text matching wouldn't be cross browser. — Lime, May 08 '17 at 18:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '17 at 18:33

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A simple replace should do the trick. No need for regex.

text.replace('<br/>', ' ');

answered May 08 '17 at 18:33

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technically browsers render
differently this isn't right as is plus he used .text instead .html – Lime May 08 '17 at 18:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '17 at 18:33

Try

var content = ("cookie.current.addressLabel"); // this outputs the current location address which is Deep Forest<br/>Suite 233<br/>100 Top Lane<br/>Los Angeles, CA 
         var html= $(content).html();
        //showGoogleMap(content);
        html.replace( /<br\s*[\/]?>/gi, ' ');

Replace every with a space

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Replace every
with a space